I love life. It has always been challenging but that is exactly why I love it. It gives me a hallucinating high.

This year has almost come to an end and my challenges were and still are:-

1. Starting full time work after a 10 year hiatus being the domicile wife and available Mommy. Sometimes, I feel like giving it all up because let’s face it, it was never the plan to go back to work. The Hubs summoned me to do a job and that job was to take care of his kids, our kids. But shit, I love my work and it literally fell on my lap. Like fate. But whenever I have to deal with a pile of shit, I ask myself what the heck I am doing this for! My kids suffer, there isn’t enough time for anything and if you wanted to know how fast my life is, go watch I Don’t Know How She Does It with Sarah Jessica Parker/Pierce Brosnan and add in a few more responsibilities to her already busy life. It’s a crazy life. Why do I do it? I’m a frigging lunatic.

2. Chasing a steep learning curve in an industry completely alien to myself. I was trained as an architect. I am now dealing with everything that has nothing to do with architecture. I have been learning for 5 months and I’ve been running full speed to catch up with that high speed train. I’ve not caught it yet because technology progresses at the speed of light so whilst I get nearer, it will be almost impossible to catch it. But you never know.

3. I deal a lot with Government Agencies. Mannnnnn………..it’s probably the most painful experience of my life. Yet I know that if it is painful now, just imagine how much more painful it was a few years ago. So I take comfort in that.

4. Keeping my kids happy. I have a smart daughter who is bloody manipulative and knows how to tug at my heart strings. She’s always putting me on guilt trips complaining how I don’t spend enough time with them and how I don’t even have time to coach her with school work like other Moms so how can I expect her to excel like them? Just to give you an example, yesterday, she wanted to go for a walk outdoors in the evening before dinner and knowing I’d offer some excuse to not go (too busy, too tired), she pitched it to me perfectly and got her way. She said, “Mom, let’s go for a walk and we can go collect the mail. Then we can get lots of exercise and will sleep early tonight. Plus T2 will get a good work out and will eat more for dinner!” Mannnnnn…….. I was sold. Sleep early? Yes! Yes! YES!!! And if you know my stress with T2’s anorexia, then you know how excited I get when she eats.

5. The challenge to lose weight, get fit and be healthy. The challenge to sleep more. I’m working on all these things simultaneously.

6. Maintaining the household and our lives afloat. I have to manage the part-time maid (make sure house is clean, laundry is done, trash is disposed), the British Nanny (know what T2 is up to everyday), make sure there is food in the fridge, pay the monthly bills, organise play dates, chauffeur kids to their activities, source next year’s ECA tutors to come to the house (because I no longer want to be a chauffeur and there isn’t enough driving around to justify hiring a chauffeur), organise for the next school year, cook every day for the family! I also try to keep my friend and family informed that I still exist!

7. I have my side projects still to fulfil and responsibilities and time lines that have already been committed to besides my full time job that actually pays. My problem is I do not know how to say no. My plate is already full but I keep thinking, if I don’t do it, who will? As it is, whenever I shout for support, hardly anyone wants to do charity……..

8. Dealing with miscellaneous challenges – daughter gets into accident, mother is sick, organising flights for in-laws, booking hotels for family members, you name it man. My to do list is never ending.

So.

To all of you whom I haven’t responded to in your emails, please forgive me.

There was a Mom who wrote to me a few months back who needed some help with a new business. If you are reading this, can you please email me again? I was ever ready to support you, I was just crazy busy then but have not forgotten.

Also, to the person who bought our animal alphabet puzzle wooden school bus, we have found the pig! Please get in touch so we can deliver the pig to you or arrange for collection.

Here’s to the end of 2011. Exactly 31 more days………..

 

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Who is Mamapumpkin?
Mamapumpkin spent 7 years in London committing crimes to gain her Bartlett degree in Architecture. She then spent 7 years as a Stay At Home Mom raising her children as documented in this blog of over 15 years thereafter returning to the Corporate World stronger than ever as the Country Director of a British Multinational. She sets out to prove to all, that you can have anything and everything that you want; if you have that fire of desire burning within and the drive to work hard. Even better with much love.

Mamapumpkin has not only grown corporate businesses successfully in the past but has grown not one but TWO network marketing businesses in the notorious MLM (Multi-Level Marketing) industry, achieving success in under 2 years. She believes in the MLM business model but realises the DRASTIC PITFALLS and great stigma attached to it, understanding EXACTLY WHY the majority would shy away (or RUN for their lives) from ANY MLM business. But open your eyes and take time to understand it intellectually, remove your hang-ups, confirm your research, and you may just want to seize an opportunity. She did. And no, she never went about chasing people for sales. She had a sophisticated system work for her through technology and a smartphone.

She now impacts lives authentically with proven strategies amassed through the last decade of her own transformation offering online coaching programmes and always supports the underprivileged. She believes that we can all have a life of our own desires to enable real contribution into the world. But first, one needs to understand what this all means.

A beautiful life without limits.

If you wish to learn some tools to propel your life forward guaranteed, be brave enough to make contact as her life's purpose is to build people. She operates through a discovery call after which she will commit to helping you. Or not.

Most lose out on an opportunity because they are afraid they would be sold to, conned or whatever fear resides in their brain without even trying. And that's on them.

Mamapumpkin is a living testimony that women really can have a lot. Being financially and time free has enabled her to travel the world anytime, anywhere, doing anything, and she spends most of her days with her children, having fun, and supporting others wherever she can. Also having fun.